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单词 tripling
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triplingn.

/ˈtrɪplɪŋ/
Etymology: < triple v. + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of triple v.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increasing in specific proportion
doubling1398
redoubling?1473
quadrupling1573
duplication1590
tripling1603
redoublement1611
sextupling1656
millecuplation1678
trebling1694
quadruplication1836
quintupling1862
sextuplication1935
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [noun]
trebling1591
tripling1603
triplication1610
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxvii. 94 It is a great..wonder for a man to double himself; and those that talke of tripling, know not, nor cannot reach vnto the height of it.
1630 R. Delamain Grammelogia sig. **1 The doubling, tripling [etc.] of Circles.
1853 W. R. Hamilton Lect. Quaternions ii. 53 Two successive acts, of negatively doubling and negatively tripling, compound themselves into the single act of positively sextupling.
b. spec. See triple v. 1c.
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1891 Times 26 Oct. 4/3 There is a fair amount of tripling of engines in old vessels ordered.
2. concrete.
a. plural. Three children at a birth; triplets.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > triplets
trines1628
triplet1787
trins1831
thrin1838
tripling1858
1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. 246 This multiplication of individuals from one egg, this production of twins, or triplings, is a constant fact.
b. Mineralogy. A compound crystal made up of three independent individuals; a trilling, trin.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal types > [noun] > composite crystals > trilling
trin1868
tripling1895
trilling1896
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §157 Such crystals are triple, quadruple, &c. hemitropes (or triplings, fourlings. &c.).
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